De Born Research Paper

The topic of spirituality, divinity and otherworldly phenomena is quite common in medieval literature and there is a multitude of contexts, in which these topics are addressed. The protagonists of those texts find themselves in a balancing act between the secular world and a supernatural world, where they need to overcome struggles to master the difficulties of their worlds’ dualisms. Be it an otherworld of fairies or the christian hereafter, those worlds and the mundane conducts often influence each other reciprocally in the stories of medieval literature.

The power of the imagination is one of the most under-appreciated capabilities that human kind has. Though it is broadly under-estimated, it is essential to exercise the imagination consciously and unconsciously in order to achieve in-depth understandings of the creative world. After analyzing the individual components that make up fairy tales and the gothic, it becomes evident that these two genres are unified into one blended genre full of interplay on innovation and underlying meanings. Both fairy tales and the gothic genre have similar imaginative aspects, symbols and motifs that interact in unison.

When reading literature we often attempt to use particular threads of thought or lenses of critique to gain entry into the implied historic or legendary nature of literature. To accurately process a tale in the light in which it is presented, we have to consider the text from multiple viewpoints. We must take into consideration intentional and affective fallacies and the socioeconomic circumstances of the presenter/author/narrator. We also have to consider how our personal experience creates bias by placing the elements of the story into the web of relationships that we use to interpret the external world. There also is the need to factor in other external pressures, from societal norms, cultural ideals, and psychological themes, and how

Just across the street is the Trump International Hotel and Tower, one of the wealthiest hotels in the world. I'm in direct view of the penthouse that is where the target lives. Blaine DeBeers. The man looks like death. DeBeers pale skin and hair are extremely white and he has reddish circles around his blue eyes. He looks old. DeBeers is an entitled rich man who bites off more than he can chew in the drug business, and he runs the underground brain-delivery service in Seattle out of the butcher shop, Meat Cut. As one may ask "A Brain-delivery service?", he murders homeless teenagers and sells their brains to people who indulged in the unique cuisine. Though it is a unique business he is a murder and a drug dealer. The usual victim in my expertise.

The medieval and early modern periods were eras with distinctive issues and ideals. Some of their key themes were very similar, such as the importance of religion and the role it played in everyday life, while other matters were unique to their time, such as the medieval selling of indulgences, or the early modern Reformation of the Church. These examples illustrate clearly the mixture of change and stasis in the two ages, as a subject shared by both periods yielded so great a diversity of issues. The distinction of the eras makes it evident that some change did occur, but as the period of time between them was not very great, the change must be limited. Everyman and Dr Faustus are respectively medieval and early modern drama texts that

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales demonstrated the effect of the plague on literature, as it is filled with fleshed-out characters of varying social classes, described in intricate detail and description not common to literature before the Black Plague (Sayre 455). In all these matters, the Black Plague changed Europe forever. Distrust in the church and religion grew as a result of the plague and, due to the social

A troubadour was a poet that represented a knightly class of people. Accordingly, it is expected that a poem from a celebrated troubadour such as de Born will represent the zeitgeist – that is, the popular opinion of the times. One of de Born’s poems, titled “Be•m platz lo gais temps de pascor,” is mainly about the glories of war. De Born juxtaposes “the joyful springtime,” with “clubs and blades and painted helms” (Kline). De Born speaks for the knightly masses here, demonstrating the group’s love of war (Editors).

What is it like to be a writer during The Enlightenment movement? For those that don’t know what The Enlightenment is basically when scientific practices are being introduced into society bringing light into what they believe. A writer by the name of Jean Baptiste Moliere is a 17th century play writer who is one of the best in comedy and drama in the Western tradition. He lived in the time during The Enlightenment period and his thought on it was that it was all hypocritical. In this paper I will be going over Moliere’s life growing up, his time writing and publishing one of his works and how they respond to The Enlightenment.

Robert Darnton’s, Peasant Tell Tales, is a wonderful first chapter that explores the French peasantry of the Old Regime, through the lens of folktales. A cultural historian, Darton tediously unpacks several folktales, revealing the harsh lives of the peasants, as well as their worldviews. As argued by Darnton, folktales must be studied as they serve as historical testimonies--examining man's experiences and desires.

British Literature is filled with diverse and talented writers who through each period has brought something new to the table. Over the course of the term we have covered the Romantic period, the Victorian Age and the Modern period. Each period has had a hand in developing literature through to the modern age and each writer has influenced the next generation. To best examine each period of literature the paper will be split amongst the three major periods the course has covered. Each period had it’s own style, stories and ways of telling each story as such the paper will explore the writers of each time and their effect on the later generations. Literature in general has grown from the impact the past generations have had on the current writers. Thus British literature in particular has developed over each period a great deal and has ultimately lead us into the modern twenty-first century literature that we read today.

Smooth yellowish pages rustle under my fingers. Eragon finds his dragon Saphira’s egg in the mountains. I voraciously take in every word, every sentence. I feel myself a part of a story – I am inside the book. Gentle evening sun, setting behind two green peaks of the Carpathian mountains, warm August air, faint odor of pines, the smoke coming from a fire somebody lit down in the valley – all aid in the impression that I am not in Slavske – small resort in West Ukraine- but in a distant yet so close land of dragons, elves, magic and mystery. Even as Eragon, I am trying to discover my true name - a phrase or even a word that could most consistently describe my personality: all my merits, faults, desires, goals, victories and failures. With that advanced understanding of my own self, I could shape my own life and my perception of the world as I will.

In many texts, duty based in morality or religion is a common theme. It helps to characterize the main characters as well as emphasize the conflict in the text. In Middle-Eastern texts, there was often a duty to other people. In French Renaissance texts, the character’s duty could be driven by moral or religious reasons. In French and Middle-Eastern texts, however, moral and religious duty helped to develop characters and drive the plot.

Among various political, social, and religious strife, the Medieval Literature is characterized by Christian influence and beliefs. In medieval texts, authors highlight the importance and grandeur of the Christian faith by contrasting it with descriptions of foreign lands. As a result, people received a false view of these faraway lands that included Syria and India. In texts such as Sir John Mandeville’s The Book of Marvels and Travels and Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Man of Law’s Tale” offer examples of othering by their misunderstanding of foreign people and criticism of their religion which in turn facilitates the authors in defining the Christian European identity.

Through the late 1700s and early 1800s, the period of Romanticism blossomed. “Romanticism” very loosely describes the era in which modern culture began to take shape. During the Romantic era, many advancements were made in all aspects of people’s lives and cultures. One aspect in particular has held great value even to this day. That aspect being the expansive amount of literature created during the era. The era of Romanticism had its name for a reason. It can be greatly attributed to the romantic style or genre of literature that defined the period. Romantic writers wove many tales of admiration, longing, and aspirations. They were fantastical, in a sense, and almost the antithesis of realism, even. Amidst the great breadth of literature

When one thinks of the word medieval, there appear to be almost an instantaneous reaction. Some may see the period associated with the gothic architecture, Crusades, brutalism, death, the Black Plague, illiteracy, or the Dark Ages. Others may interpret the period as one full of valiant knights, princesses waiting to be saved, jousting, castles, and noble kings and queens. From video games such as The Legend of Zelda and the popular HBO television series A Game of Thrones, to accounts of medieval torture or treatment in the newspapers, the Middle Ages seems to be more relevant than ever. However, it can be argued that much about what we know about the real Middle Ages was constructed in the nineteenth century due to a comparative lack of records and the imaginative portrayal of the period by the Victorians. Due to the tumultuous period that was the Industrial Revolution, many social critics and artists turned back to the Middle Ages in order to reflect their anxieties of the present and the hopes and expectations of the future. I began to note that the medievalist movement was built upon medieval studies through a desire to create, rather than retrieve the past, which in turn lead to academic debates about authenticity and furthered the tension between the two fields leading to an almost insurmountable break. Those in medieval studies look towards medievalism as a misguided attempt to contemplate history which in turn changed the public’s understanding towards the era away